At some point in their treatment for cancer, somewhere between 17% and 75% of patients with malignancies that don’t affect the central nervous system report the sensation that a mental fog has set in.

Engaging in a simple home-based exercise regimen of walking and resistance training during chemotherapy can help patients ...

Talk with almost any cancer survivor, and he or she is likely to bring up the topic of "chemobrain," that fuzzy, murky state that patients blame for impaired memory. A review of the research shows how ...

A so-called "genius pill" may enhance memory and attention among breast cancer survivors who suffer from the condition known as "chemobrain," a small study suggests. The researchers looked at the ...

A few years ago, one of my students came to me and spoke about her mother who was undergoing treatment for breast cancer. She said her mother was losing her memory and her bearings, and was very ...

Medical experts have always known myelin, the protective coating of nerve cells, to be metabolically inert. A study led by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has found that myelin is ...

BACKGROUND: Research shows up to 80 percent of people undergoing chemotherapy experience a condition called chemobrain. Chemobrain is defined as difficulty processing information. It usually goes ...

While surviving cancer should be an occasion for rejoicing, many people who have undergone the standard or high-dose chemotherapy to defeat the disease unfortunately suffer from a physical and mental ...

SINGAPORE — Researchers are a step closer to understanding why some breast cancer patients develop cognitive impairment after chemotherapy and whether some high-risk patients could benefit from early ...

When we hear the word chemotherapy, we automatically think of cancer patients, and its destructive effects on them, though it is supposed to be a cure. Chemotherapy really means the use of drugs to ...

OK, we have all done it. Forgotten something and then laughingly blamed it on chemobrain, that cotton candy brain that came to stay to a greater or lesser degree with chemotherapy. I even make a joke ...

A few years ago, one of my students came to me and spoke about her mother who was undergoing treatment for breast cancer. She said her mother was losing her memory and her bearings, and was very ...